It depends on the Hakka variant. In Bao'an and Dongguan areas (and probably more areas) /lok8/ is used for both descend and enter. To enter is /lok8 loi2/ or /lok8 hi5/. In this context in some variants, i.e. my own, /jip8/ (or the equivalent /ngip8/) is not used commonly or not used at all.

It's very interesting and funny to note these and many of such differences in all the variants.

Yes, I quite agree. My wife is from Longchuan near Heyuan in Guangdong, and she uses 入 /zip1/ (equivalent to /Nip5/ in my dialect). The pronunciation is rather like zip as in a fastener which you pull to close up a coat.

The character is 發 'fat5'. You may be wondering why, and the answer is because it is one of a number of characters which derive from an early stage in Chinese called Middle Chinese (MC).

At the MC stage the character 發 was something like pronounced something like piw@t or biw@t, notice the initial consonant. This later developed from two lip bilabial consonant b or p to lip-teeth labial-dental consonant f, as found in Hakka common readings. bot5 is thus a conservative preserved reading for the character.

Others include

fly 飛, fui1 bui1fat 肥, fui2 pui2

bark 吠 poi4, but in Cantonese it is faai and in Mandarin fei

These remanant pronunciations tend to indicate that there are some ancient preserved distinctions in the Hakka spoken language.

It is the same as 追/楷. fat5 and bot5 are both readings of the same character, but bot5 is a remanent of an older stratum of Hakka, harking back to the time when there were no f- initial sounds in Chinese.

Dylan: Thanks for your excellent explanation. We also use "fat vun" but somehow "fat tai fung" does not sound correct! Do you think it is the same "bod" character?As to the missing initial "f" sound, some natives in S.E. Asia do not pronounce an initial f, it comes out as 'p" and sometimes "b". And to imagine that their ancestors also came down from mainland Asia!

Thomas - Thanks for confirming this. I still think "bod tai fung" sounds more correct than "fat tai fung".Also for Dylan: I think there are some other double pronounciations in Hakka, please confirm if you have come across them: 1-For the word "cheng" as in "cheng gong (successful)" it seems we can say "sing gung" or we can "sang gung".2-For the word "guo" ("country", "state") we can say "gok" or "gek" (Sin On Hakka) or "guok" or "guek" (Moi Yen).

sin/sang and other words like it belong to a Middle Chinese (MC) group of rhymes which depend on the vowel in reading.

One reading often ends in -in or -en, the other often ends in -ang.

In the country gwok/gwet (ends in t), Hakka -it ending like eat (sit6) come from rimes where the original ending was something like [sik] as in Cantonese. Other vowels you see this happening to is MC [@k] as well which become [et] in Hakka.

Both these groups (ending in -n and -k) belong to the same broad rime group. I'll talk more of this later. Kinda rushed now.